PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Memory T Cell, Serostatus
19 Apr 2013
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Stress is the subjective response, stressor is the event that causes stress. Subjective response to life events (so you can have same stressor and different responses to that stressor) Acute stressors (one time, short duration stressors; don"t last long) this is what most people would call stress sudden onset of psychological or physical demands. Episodic acute stressor would refer to a reoccurring form of acute stress (for example, when i come home neighbour has a dog, and it barks. It lasts for a short time but it happens repeatedly and it"s predictable and it"s not controllable. Deal with it for a short time, repeatedly. Traumatic stressor is another form of an acute stressor but it is a very severe acute stressor. But it differs from acute stressor, cuz of syndrome of responses that occurs from it. (ex post- traumatic stress disorder). Chronic stressors are also serious forms of stress, because they are constant.
